Shirt



(ModeL) A. H. GRAFFTEY.-=

SHIRT.

No. 268,482. Pate nted Den. 5, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

ALFRED H. GRAFFTEY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO FRANK F. TEMPLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,482, dated December 5, 1882..

Application filed August 25, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED H. GRAFFTEY, of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of

, which the followingis a specification.

The object of my said invention is to provide for the openings of shirts, drawers, and such like articles a facing which shall extend across the termination of said opening, and prevent the garment from ripping or .tearing at that point when opened out in the ordinary manner.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a'rea-r view of a shirt provided with my improved facing; and Fig. 2,2; detail view, on an enlarged scale, of so much thereof as is necessary to illustrate my said invention.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the shirt-body; B, that portion of the facing which is outside the other, and O that portion of the facing which folds underneath.

The shirt-body A is or may be of any ordinary or approved form, and needs no special description.

The portion B of the facing is much like an ordinary facing for shirts, and extends from the yoke or neckband down one side of the opening to a short distance below the extremity of said opening, as shown.

The portion G of the facing is cut tapering, and its inner edge is stitched to the body A on the opposite side of the opening from the portion B down to the extremity of said opening, and then fora short distance up the other side to the outer edge of the portion B, as shown more plainly in Fig. 2. When the ends of the neckband are brought nearly together, as shown in Fig. 1, this portion folds over, as shown by the dotted lines at c in said figure. When opened out, as shown in Fig. 2, the strain comes directly on the cloth composing this portion of the facing instead of on the stitching at the termination of the opening, as in shirts of ordinary construction.

I am aware that facings have been made which continue past the extremity of the open ing, and I therefore disclaim the invention, broadly, of such afacing. I am not, however, aware that any facing has been constructed in the form which I have shown, or in any other form in which thestrain would come exactly lengthwise of the goods when the upper ends, I) c, are pulled directly sidewise away from each other, as shown in Fig. 21, and as is the natural manner of drawing them apart. In other constructions the strain will come directly lengthwise the goods of which the facing is composed only when the ends 1/ c are pulled to the front and rear instead of sidewise.

Having flips fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is g 1. In a shirt, the two-part facing B (J for the back-opening, the portion B being an ordinary facing extending downwardly from the yoke or neck and along one side or the opening, as shown, and the portion 0 being cut tapering and extending downwardly from the yoke or neckband along the other side of the opening and part way up the first side, the points of connection between the two parts B and 0 being the outer edge of the former andthe inner edge of the latter, ail substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the shirt-body A and the two-part facing B (1, one part upon one side of the shirt-opening and the other part upon the otlier side, and one part beingiblded back and extending part way up the other, i

and having its inner edge secured to the outer edge of said other part for the dist-mice which it so extends, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 22d day of August, A. 1582.

ALFRED H. GRAFFTEY. [L. s].

In presence of- G. BRADFORD, E. W. BRADFORD. 

